27 posts tagged “qotd”

What soon-to-be-published book are you excited to read?

What role does religion play in your life? How has it changed over the years?

No role whatsoever, apart from occasional bewilderment. Born and raised atheist, which only occasionally becomes a problem during Trivial Pursuit games or NYT crosswords.  No cultural context, see?

 Ned: Well...?
 Todd: I know!
  Ned: No, son, we've got to let Bart and Lisa get one.  Come on, this
       one's easy.
 Lisa: [pause] We give up.
  Ned: Well, guess!  Book of Revelations, fire-breathing lion's head,
       tail made out of snakes...who else is it going to be?
 Bart: [unsure] Jesus?
  Ned: [yelling] Je...Jes...don't you kids know anything?  The Serpent
       of Rehaboam?
        [the kids look blank]
       The Well of Zohassadar?
        [the kids look blank]
       The Bridal Feast of Beth Chedruharazzeb?
Maude: Wait.  That's the kind of thing you should start learning at
       baptism.
 Lisa: Um, ahem, actually, you see, ahem, we were never baptised.
        [Ned groans and faints]

What is the most memorable moment of "The X-Files" you can recall?
Submitted by The BlueTie.

Actually, both fairly daft episodes, and both from season 5: The Post-Modern Prometheus and Bad Blood. 

And since we're on the X-Files, gotta give props to Mulder's Big Adventure.  Top Quality Snark.

What's your favorite song with "America" or "USA" in the title? Bonus points if you share it with us.

If by 'favourite', you mean 'do a quick search in itunes for that string, and pick the one from 22 years ago that still sounds relevant'. 

Why do you blog?
Submitted by littleduckling.

I really have no idea anymore.

How many houses have you lived in? How is where you live now different from where you grew up?

OK, this could take a while...

2 in the UK
2 in Canada in '85
4 in Australia '87 - 1999
2 in Canada in 2000
and 2 in Australia since

so that's...12 then.  Unless I'm missing one or two somewhere.

Damnit, I am.  That crappy sharehouse in Braddon.  That's 13 then.

How many pair of shoes do you have? Out of those pairs, how many do you wear more than a few times a year?
Submitted by fightinggale.

You know what?  Thinking about it, I now have an embarrasingly large collection of shoes.  There's a couple of places around here that sell Converse pretty cheap, so I've picked up 4 pairs of them recently (red high tops, green low tops, black laceless ones, and green/camouflage 'double shoe' thingies)

Plus a couple of cheap sneakers, some walking shoes I got cheap in the UK, and a pair of Colorado boots.  And probably some shiny black shoes for fancy.

6 months ago though, I think I only had the boots and the red high tops.

Flickr pro users can now upload 90 second videos which has members complaining about everything from slowing Flickr down, lack of community consultation, and diminishing Flickr's inital purpose: photography. What do you think -- Do you support video on Flickr?

I do - I think it's good to be able to upload photos and videos of the same events at the same time and in the same place.  Also, limiting it to Pro users should cut down on crappy spam vids that infest YouTube and the like.

And here's the first video I've uploaded, from our last trip to Canada:

What was the #1 song on the radio when you were born?

According to the all-knowing wikipedia:

in Australia: Heart of Glass by Blondie
in the UK: Bright Eyes by Art Garfunkel
and in the US: Knock on Wood by Amii Stewart

Looks like I never uploaded that cover of Heart of Glass by Mystery Machine, so that'll have to wait until I get home.

If you could teleport to any place in the world right this second, where would you go?

Back to bed.  Fuck this Monday morning shit.